Radon transform inversion using the shearlet representation (Q982557)

The reconstruction of an image consists in inverting the Radon transform \((Rf)(\theta,t)\), defined on \( D=[0,2\pi)\times{\mathbb R}\), of a function \(f(x)\). In dimension \(n=2\), the Radon operator associated to a function \(f\) has the form \[ (R f)(\theta, t)=\int{ f(x,y)\delta(x\cos{\theta} +y\sin {\theta} -t)\,dxdy}, \] where \({\delta}\) is the Dirac distribution at the origin. The authors use to invert the Radon operator its representation via special basic functions, defined under the action of the fractional Laplacian and shown that this strategy is competitive with other methods.